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The expressway's electronic toll collection (ETC) system uses devices branded Easytrip by its concessionaire, NLEX Corporation. Collection is done on mixed lanes at the toll barriers. Tolls are charged based on class. Under the law, all toll rates include a 12% value-added tax. The toll rates, implemented since June 4, 2024, are as follows: [8]
This list of expressways in the Philippines is currently composed of ten controlled-access highways that connects Metro Manila to the provinces located in north and south Luzon. While not all expressways are interconnected, there is a plan to connect all expressways to form the Philippine expressway network .
The first elevated toll road in the Philippines is the Skyway, with its construction consisting of numerous sections called "stages". Its latest section, Stage 3, was completed in 2021. [ 10 ] The Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR) Tollway, from Santo Tomas to Lipa in Batangas was opened in 2001 and was extended in 2008.
The Toll Regulatory Board is a Philippine government agency that regulates all toll roads in the Philippines. The TRB was created by virtue of Presidential Decree (“P.D.”) No. 1112 or the Toll Operation Decree.
In the 1999 Metro Manila Urban Transportation Integration Study (MMUTIS), JICA proposed building elevated expressways from Andres Bonifacio Avenue to Radial Road 10/Marcos Road (now Mel Lopez Boulevard) in Tondo, Manila, called the R-10/C-3 Expressway, and along Circumferential Road 5 that would have extended to Bulacan past Republic Avenue in ...
The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), [a] signed as E1 of the Philippine expressway network, partially as N160 [b] of the Philippine highway network, and partially as R-8 [b] of the Metro Manila arterial road network, [c] is a controlled-access highway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces of the Central Luzon region in the Philippines.
Electronic toll collection is a wireless system to automatically collect the usage fee or toll charged to vehicles using toll roads, HOV lanes, toll bridges, and toll tunnels. It is a faster alternative to toll booths , where vehicles must stop and the driver manually pays the toll with cash or a card.
At the same time, the travel time from Manila to Tarlac City via NLEx and the SCTEX would only take 1 hour and 25 minutes. In 2015, the BCDA awarded the operations and maintenance of the expressway to the Manila North Tollways Corporation (MNTC, now NLEX Corporation). The operator took over the management of the toll road on October 27. [11]